Felixstowe Beach

The Felixstowe Railway and Pier opened on 1 May 1877 but there were no stations between and the terminus at as the station near the beach at Felixstowe was not ready in time, although it did open soon after. The company had been promoted by Colonel George Tomline who owned property near the station. He was criticised by the Suffolk Chronicle for building the stations where he thought "people ought to be, rather than where people actually live". It has been claimed that it was location was chosen to be away from his rival John Chevalier Cobbold's Ordnance Hotel, which was close to the railway on Landguard Road. The station had goods facilities and also the line's engine shed.…

Felixstowe Beach is situated at the bottom of a gradient that brings the line down from Trimley to near sea level. The single platform was on the east side of the line just north of the level crossing of a road that leads down to the beach itself. In 1888 the platform was extended to 510 ft and an additional (dead-end) track was laid behind it. The 30-lever signal box was at the north end of the platform until 1971 when a smaller structure was provided on the west side of the line to the north of the level crossing.